Manufacture of pasteboard glazed tiles.



UNTTED STATES PATENT @EEICE.

HERMENEGILDO MIRALLES Y ANGLES, OF BARCELONA, SPAIN.

MANUFACTURE OF PASTEBOARD GLAZED TILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,966, dated October30, 1 900.

Application filed June 16, 1900. Serial No. 20,606. (No Specimens.)

T0 Ltd/3 whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HERMENEGILDO MI- RALLES Y ANGLES, manufacturer, asubject of the King of Spain, residing at Barcelona, in the Province ofBarcelona and Kingdom of Spain, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in the Manufacture of Pasteboard Glazed Tiles; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention relates to the man u facture of pasteboardglazed tiles which in their design, colors, and general appearance are afull imitation of the ceramic or usual Di1tch g lazed tiles; and to thisend my invention consists, first, in printing on paper sheets bytypographic, lithographic, or phototypic means the convenient drawingsintended to imitate the well-known Dutch tiles, in forming the body ofthe tiles with pasteboard, (strawboard, wood-pulp board, or like board,)which is immersed or plunged in a hot solution consisting of Jews pitch,(asphaltum,) turpentine, and india-rubber dissolved in benzene, inapplying or affixing the drawn paper on said tile-bodies, in printingthereon the desired reliefs, and in varnishing or glazing the surface ofthe drawingsay the right face of the tile.

To carry my invention into effect, I print the desired drawings on thepaper by means of any typographic, lithographic, phototypic, or similarprinting process, fat inks being preferably used for such printing. Insome cases a counter-draw transfer may be efficient.

1 form the body of the tiles with pasteboard, strawboard, orwoodpulp-board sheets,which are cut in square pieces about eight incheslong by eight inches Wide, and I immerse said squares in a hot solutionconsisting of Jews pitch, (asphaltun1,) turpentine, and india'rubberdissolved in benzene. Then said squares are taken out of the bath,'andtheyare allowed to dry in a stove. When dry, the squares are taken outof the stove and a sheet of the previously-printed paper is carefullyapplied to each of them with varnish or otherwise affixed thereon, so asto imitate the genuine Dutch tiles. When the paper is thoroughly fixedon the squares, the latter are allowed to dry in the stove. After thepaper has been thoroughly fixed on the pasteboard, I print thereon thedesired reliefs, so as to imitate those of the Dutch tiles, and to thisend the pasteboard squares are placed between two metal'pla'tes, the oneof which is engraved in high relief and the other in low relief, saidsquares being thus strongly pressed until the desired reliefs are neatlyimparted on.the right face of the same. The so-formed tiles are thenglazed by varnishing the surface of their drawings-a1 e. the right facethereof and I allow them to dry in a stove. After this treatment my newpasteboard glazed tiles substantially imitate the genuine Dutch glazedtiles. My pasteboard glazed tiles so prepared are used in exactly thesame cases or fittings as the ceramicor common Dutch tiles are. ployedin the decoration of household furniture, rooms, 850., as well as inornamental and like purposes.

A great advantage of my tiles compared with the ceramic ones is that theformer are almost unbreakable, they are cheaper and lighter, andarefurther impervious or waterproof in at least so great extent as theusual glazed tiles may be. 7

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described process of prod ucing asteboard or other similarglazed tiles, which consists in subjecting the body of the tile to ahgtjlath composedof a splialtu-m,

turpentine and dissolved india-rubber then applying a sheet of papercontaining the desired drawings or design, then forming thereon thedesired pattern in relief, and finally In consequence they may beeuivarnishing or glazing the upper face of the tirus formed tile.

ik As-anim proved article of manufacture, a pasteboard or other. similarglazed tile, the WITftibTF of which is composedbfwaterproofed pastebo pd or other similar, board,

sanrman being covered on one face with a paper or other analogous sheetcontaining the desired drawing or representation and the desired patternbeing pressed upon the paper and the body of the tile, the paper sheetbeing varnished or glazed, substantially as described.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a pasteboard or other similarglazed tile, the body portion of which is composed of pasteboard orother similar board which has been subjected to a hot solution ofasphaltum, turpentine and dissolved india-rubber, said body beingcovered on one face with a paper or other analogous sheet containing thedesired drawing or representation and the desired pattern being pressedupon the paper and the body of the tile, the paper sheet being varnishedor glazed, substantially as described.

4. In the manufacture of pasteboard glazed tiles, the process of formingthe body of the tiles by pasteboard, strawboard, Wood-pulp board or likeboard, byimmersing said board in a hot solution of Jews pitch turpentineand india-rubber dissolved in benzene, substantially as described.

HERMENEGILDO MIRALLES Y ANGLES.

Witnesses:

GERONIMO BOLIBAR, STANLEY O. HARRIS.

